Expert: Uncovered Auschwitz plans important

Holocaust historian believes original plans for construction of Nazi extermination camp found in Berlin include no new information, but says extensive reports on global media help maintain memory of Shoah in newspaper headlines

There is nothing new in the documents found in Germany, Holocaust historian Prof. Israel Gutman told Ynet on Saturday night following the discovery of the original plans for the construction of the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz.

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“These things are well known and appear in any serious book which deals with Auschwitz. However, it’s still impressive that certain things are confirmed once again,” he said.

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“There were all kinds of attempts to claim that people were not murdered in Auschwitz and that the country was under Soviet rule at the time,” he said. “They claimed it was the USSR’s fault, that these things happened inside Poland and that no one can proves these are facts. Today there are no disagreements, perhaps only on the numbers and reasons for the Holocaust.”